Visual Artists To Watch Out For: Eileen O'Sullivan

Eileen O’Sullivan

Since graduating from NCAD in 2015, Eileen’s work has been shown in many group exhibitions, and has been purchased by a number of key collections in Ireland. In June 2018, she was awarded ‘The K&M Evans Prize for Painting’ at the Royal Hibernian Academy’s 188th Annual Exhibition. She also won the 2018 Solstice Visual Arts award at the 7th Surveyor exhibition. The winning piece, ‘Two Layers’, an oil on board painting, was selected from over 300 entries by 112 artists. Eileen’s work centres on ideas of comfort, belonging and place, taking the familiar, and transposing it into something special through the versatility, freedom and language of paint. She often paints from photographs taken in her personal environment, from both her present experiences and her childhood. For more on Eileens work go to http://www.eileenosullivan.com/